Academic Visitors
The department welcomes academic visitors to spend some time at SOAS to pursue an independent research project.
Academic visitors are entitled to use the Library and the Staff Common Room, and to attend lectures and seminars throughout the School. Unfortunately, due to the School’s central London location, we cannot provide office space for visitors.
Potential visitors are encouraged to look through the department’s web pages to get a sense of the department and its research.
There is no formal application form, and interested scholars are asked to write to the Head of Department in the first instance, specifying the proposed dates of the visit, and attaching a CV and a research proposal of the project to be undertaken during the visit.
A bench fee of £316.80 per month (or £3,168 per year) is normally charged (dependent on visitors’ funding arrangements), and visitors may be asked to present a lecture or a talk on the topic of their research.
Academic Visitors in 2011-12
Anvita Abbi (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India): Documentation of the languages of the Andaman Islands.
Assel Akzhigitova (Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Astana City, Kazakhstan): The Linguistic situation and cross-cultural issues of education in the UK
Dariga Anasheva (Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Astana City, Kazakhstan):Modern linguistics as the scientific study of all aspects of the language and its application in translation technology
Fawzia Bouhass (Djilali Liabes University, Algeria): Developing fluency in oral communication in EFL contexts
Muhammad Qasim Bughio (University of Sindh, Pakistan): Language Policy in Pakistan
Yuka Hayashi (Kyoto University, Japan): Cutting-edge theories and technologies of language documentation and preservation with particular reference to Ikema, one of the dialects of Miyako Ryukyuan, an endangered language in Japan
Qi Ji (Jilin University, Changchun, China): A default interpretation of ad-hoc concept construction: Data-based analysis of Chinese newspaper headlines
Lamya Khelil (University of Boumerdes, Algeria): The contribution of semiotics in translation theory
Zohra Labed (University of Mostaganem, Algeria): Dialect contact-induced change in Algeria
Erkki Luuk (Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany and University of Tartu, Estonia): Logical modelling of syntax, semantics and pragmatics of grammatical categories
Muhammad Nawaz (International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan):
A descriptive study of segmental phonology of Hindko
Greg Obiamalu (Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria): Functional categories in Igbo
Erol Öztürk (Abant Izzet Baysal University, Turkey): Comparison of Turkish and English based on their basic syntax characteristics
Rosemary Wildsmith-Cromarty (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa): Language teaching pedagogy for African languages
